Biography
Biographies and memoirs of the people who shaped Tasmania – settlers, pioneers, convicts, politicians, farmers, mariners and ordinary Tasmanians whose life stories were written down. Many of these are self-published or small-run family histories that are genuinely hard to find elsewhere, alongside more widely published biographies of well-known Tasmanian figures.
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Save the Wishbone for Me
Monica Debnam's memoir, family history, and autobiography.
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Shaking the Foundations - used book
Shaking the Foundations is the story of the Fairbrothers, a humble young Tasmanian couple who started a small construction business at the same time they began growing their family in 1972.
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Shit, that was close!
A memoir about near misses – 77 of them – enjoyed or endured by the author Philip Blake.
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Short Stories from World War Two - used
Tasmanian author Anthony Hope has written short stories from World War Two based on the experiences of Gregor Salmon, Critchley Parker, Jerzy Otlowski, Robert Nobes, Ronald Hope, Paul Hope, Margaret Spencer and Elsie White.
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Sinking Stations!
Post-war life on a soldier settler block in the Central Highlands of Tasmania.
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Sir John Franklin in Tasmania 1837–1843 | Kathleen Fitzpatrick | 1949 [USED – HCDJ – Old]
Kathleen Fitzpatrick's scholarly biography of Sir John Franklin's tenure as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land from 1837 to 1843 — published by Melbourne University Press in 1949 and still the standard academic account of Franklin's Tasmanian years. Franklin is better known for his fatal 1845 Arctic expedition searching for the Northwest Passage — the expedition from which neither he nor any of his 128 men returned, and whose fate remained one of the great mysteries of Victorian exploration for over a century. But his six years in Van Diemen's Land as Lieutenant-Governor were also significant.
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Sir Valentine Fleming - used
A biography of Sir Valentine Fleming, Second Chief Justice of Tasmania 1854-1869, published in the Lives of the Australian Chief Justices series.
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Smile at your District Inspector
Smile at your District Inspector …it will worry him sick! Memoirs of Jim Bashfield, a war-time sailor turned Inspector of Post Offices... Port Moresby, Oatlands, Zeehan, Bega, Ulladulla, Hobart, Ross, Adamsfield, Waratah, St Marys, Cooma, Snowy Mountains.
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![Sir John Franklin in Tasmania 1837–1843 | Kathleen Fitzpatrick | 1949 [USED – HCDJ – Old]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/sir-john-franklin-in-tasmania-02LCk2.png "Sir John Franklin in Tasmania 1837–1843 | Kathleen Fitzpatrick | 1949 [USED – HCDJ – Old]")
